Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy is a Democrat from Prince William County who introduced legislation to repeal the Right-to-Work law, but the senators rejected the bill by failing to ever consider it – essentially forcing it to miss a key deadline this week.
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This General Assembly is debating ways to limit federal immigration activities. -
Special interests are hoping to strike it rich with online gambling this year. -
Scientists studying human development are working to improve equipment to learn how babies' brains develop. A team at Virginia Tech is starting a study to follow 80 children for four years. -
Virginia’s General Assembly is considering a number of pieces of legislation aimed at protecting people against debt collectors. -
A bill in the Virginia Senate would allow state regulators to shift some costs away from Dominion Energy's residential power customers and have high-usage data centers pay them instead. -
There are an estimated 60-thousand collisions between motor vehicles and wildlife in Virginia annually. It’s a dangerous – sometimes deadly problem, and this year state lawmakers seem poised to do something about it as Sandy Hausman reports. -
The University of Virginia will begin its celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday by sharing an original copy of the Declaration of Independence – a document found in an Albany, New York attic in 1955.Sandy Hausman reports on what the public will see. -
"I’m cautiously optimistic about some of the resources that may come to bear,” Dr. Laurie Forlano with the Virginia Department of Health said. -
Virginia voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan benefiting Democrats while a court battle plays out over the legality of the effort. -
One locality confirmed there would be no immigration detention facility in a former state prison while legislative efforts to limit ICE enforcement are advancing.
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